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National Arts Learning NetworkWhat’s it all about?

CopyrightHow to protect your workand make sure you don’t infringe someone else's

The authors of this presentation have attempted to ensure the accuracy

of its contents, but note that it does not constitute legal advice and no

responsibility can be accepted for any action taken by its readers.

Copyright Law is complex and occasionally ambiguous. This document is

intended as a quick guide and you are advised to seek legal advice for

specific circumstances.

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What is Copyright?

Does it concern me?

What is covered?

How long does the copyright last?

Who are the owners?

Your rights

Infringement

Fair dealing

Agreements

You can photocopy...

Sound and vision

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What’s it all about?




What is Copyright?

Does it concern me?

What is covered?


Who are the owners?

Your rights

Infringement

Fair dealing

Agreements


Sound and vision

It is a Law that was brought in to protect people’s

creative work: writers, artists, film producers,

photographers, designers, sculptures etc. It enables

them to control the way their work is exploited.

Copyright law tries to make it easy to protect

original work yet at the same time allow users to

access it.

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What is Copyright?

Does it concern me?

What is covered?


Who are the owners?

Your rights

Infringement

Fair dealing

Agreements


Sound and vision


Yes it does, from two different aspects.

Firstly it allows you to protect your original creative

work so that you are not exploited by other.

Secondly it protects others from you using their

work. This includes pictures and text you may find

on the internet, software or even parts of text books

or newspapers you may wish to copy.

Remember someone owns it and they deserve the

same protection as you do!

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What is Copyright?

Does it concern me?

What is covered?


Who are the owners?

Your rights

Infringement

Fair dealing

Agreements


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Original work

Literature

Drama

Music

Sound recording

Film and video

Broadcasting

Cable media

Photographs

Paintings

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What is Copyright?

Does it concern me?

What is covered?


Who are the owners?

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Infringement

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•70 years after the end of the year of the author’s death

•Photographs taken on or after the 1st August 1989 are protected for 70 years after the death of the photographer

•In the case of film, copyright lasts for 70 years after the death of the last to die of the following: the main director, author of the screenplay, the author of the dialogue or the composer

•Sound recordings lasts 50 years after which they were made, released or first broadcast

•Typographical arrangements last 25 years after the year in which the edition was published

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What is Copyright?

Does it concern me?

What is covered?


Who are the owners?

Your rights

Infringement

Fair dealing

Agreements


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•The creator – artist, photographer, sculptor, writer, composer etc.

•The employer – more about this later, but if you are employed your employer will usually have absolute rights to all you create (some even right into your contract things you produce when you’re not at work!!)

•The director

•The publisher

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What is Copyright?

Does it concern me?

What is covered?


Who are the owners?

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Infringement

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The copyright owner has exclusivity of rights and can give or withhold permission over these areas:

•To copy the work

•To issue copies to the public

•To perform, show or play in public

•To broadcast or include in a cable programme service

•To make an adaption (Change your picture using photoshop!)

•To store electronically

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What is Copyright?

Does it concern me?

What is covered?


Who are the owners?

Your rights

Infringement

Fair dealing

Agreements


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This can happen if you do not seek permission from

the copyright owner and copy, for example, a

substantial part of a book or copy a segment of a

photograph. Its also very easy to forget that this

also includes software!.

As stated previously copyright exists to control the

way other people’s creative work is exploited.

Failure to seek permission could result in you being

liable, infringing the act can be a criminal offence.

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What is Copyright?

Does it concern me?

What is covered?


Who are the owners?

Your rights

Infringement

Fair dealing

Agreements


Sound and vision


The act does try to take into account students and

others who are doing project work and research.

This limits what you may use to:

•1 article from a periodical

•1 chapter or up to 5% from a book

The source of the material should be recorded on

the copy (see referencing in the Study Guide). This

is for acknowledgement and for future quotation

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What is Copyright?

Does it concern me?

What is covered?


Who are the owners?

Your rights

Infringement

Fair dealing

Agreements


Sound and vision


The College has set up a number of agreements to

help you and has a licence from the Copyright

Licensing Agency (CLA). The College pays a fee

based on the number of students who attend the

College, this allows you to make multiple copies of

sections of books and periodicals, however there

are limits:

The copies must be taken from the original work not

from a photocopy

The copies should be taken only to give out as part

of a lecture not as part of a study pack.

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What is Copyright?

Does it concern me?

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Who are the owners?

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Infringement

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Books – 1 chapter

Periodicals – 1 article

The licence does not cover artist works of any kind

unless they form part of an article from a periodical

or chapter from a book

The licence does not cover scanning. The scanning

of copyright works is illegal and should not be done

without first seeking permission from the copyright

owners. It is recommended that scanning is limited

to : your own works, images in the public domain,

eg clip art, images where copyright has lapsed or

those for which you have obtained permission –

usually in writing.

Contact the LRC staff for more information.

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What is Copyright?

Does it concern me?

What is covered?


Who are the owners?

Your rights

Infringement

Fair dealing

Agreements


Sound and vision


The college also has the Educational Recording

Agency (ERA) Licence.

The licence – calculated on the type of

establishment and the number of students, allows

the College to make off-air recordings of Radio and

TV programmes, within these conditions tapes

(DVDs) may be put into library collections and

loaded to students.

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Can I copy and use anything I like off the Internet?

If I have a website can I link to another person’s website?

Can I copy text from someone’s web page?

Is a website I design protected?

Are digital photographs protected?

This is a minefield, what do you suggest?

Where can I find more information?


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Everything on the Internet is owned by someone!

The images, the text, the layouts, the designs and

even the databases that drive some of the sites!

You must assume that everything is protected and

to use it you should get written permission from the

owner.

The fact you are a student and only want to use the

material for your project work is no defence, even

copying text for an essay is illegal if you don’t get

permission whether you reference it or not!

As an artist its difficult because inspiration can

come from many places, what you must make sure

of is that you do not use other people’s ideas and

pass them of as your own!

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Good practice says that you should get permission,

but if you do not then you should be careful to link

to the home page and not in anyway pass of their

site or any of its contents as yours.

Many owners are happy for you to link to them but

just in case make sure you get their permission in

writing – it can save confusion later on.

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We know that we have said it before but it is so

important that we will repeat it:

The fact you are a student and only want to use the

material for your project work is no defence, even

copying text for an essay is illegal if you don’t get

permission whether you reference it or not!

And of course the same Laws protect your work

from copying.

You don’t need to do anything special to have your

work copyrighted, the face that you have created it

is sufficient for it to be protected.

But beware when you start work, your employer will

insist that everything you do at work belongs to

him/her, some even go so far as saying that all

ideas you have, inside or outside of work belongs to

them. Read your contract of employment!!

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All material placed on the web is protected by

copyright.

But a website is made up of many different

components: Design, Images, and the “structure”,

this is very hard claim ownership because each

page has underlying code which defines how it looks

and works. Its very easy for anyone to access this

code, copy it (that’s illegal!...) and change it. What

is almost impossible is to prove that someone it this

unless you have a very unusual way of doing the

original coding!

But remember, how it looks and its content are

protected and no one may download this without

your express permission. See, it works both ways!!

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Digital images have the same status as traditional

photographs and are automatically protected by

copyright.

If you are taking pictures of works of art – paintings,

sculptures etc, you must make clear what their

copyright status is.

In addition if you are commissioned (paid) to take a

photograph, in general you still own the copyright of

the picture despite having been paid for it and

usually only “sell” its use for a specific task. Many

clients don’t think this is fair and will argue about it,

make sure you get the terms and conditions in

writing to save any problems later on.

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You’re right, it is a minefield and a very specialist

minefield at that!

You should always seek written permission to use

any material that you did not originate yourself.

In addition, if you create any work yourself it has

copyright automatically assigned to it, you need do

nothing. But beware, if in any doubt seek

professional advice.

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Visit this website for more

information:

http://www.jisclegal.ac.uk/ipr/Intelle

ctualProperty.htm

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I look at other artists’ work to help inspire me, is this illegal?

What is Fair Dealing?

If I work for someone who owns the work I create?

What is the difference between copyright and intellectual property rights?

Does digital material have any special status?

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Many of us look at other work to inspire us, its all

part of the creative process and many artists would

say they created their work for other people to look

at (interact with, read, listen to or watch) and be

inspired!

What we have to careful with is that we do not use

their work and pass it off as our own. For instance if

you used part of a photograph, taken by someone

else, modified it and passed it off as yours without

any reference to the original artist, this would be

illegal.

Continue to look at what others have done, be

inspired, but this is a very difficult area to advise on

and its best to talk it through with your tutor.

One question for you: How would you feel if

someone used your work?

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Fair Dealing applies to you acting on your own

behalf in “using” other people’s work. You could sue

it in the following situations:

•Research or Private study

•Criticism or Review – you might quote a passage

from a book if you were doing a review on that book

•Reporting current events – the event would need to

be topical

JICS have drawn up a good Code of Practice for this

area – and the Electronic Environment, its worth

reading, click here:

http://www.jisclegal.ac.uk/ipr/IntellectualProperty.htm

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If I work for someone, who owns the work I create?




That depends on your contract of employment. You

may find that all you do belongs to them – even

writing a novel in your lunchtime!

So, the message here is read the small print or you

could find that a brilliant idea about nothing to do

with work which you had on your way home from

work is owned by your boss!

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Intellectual property rights (IPR) include copyright,

but they also cover a whole lot more: trademarks,

patents or performance and recording rights. If you

think of copyright as a part of IPR that is correct but

you’ll find many people confused and use copyright

when they are referring to IPR.

It makes no difference to the outcome, your

copyright is covered as part of your intellectual

property rights.

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Digital material is protected in the same way as

traditional material except that they are classified

as literary works (even digital photographs, layouts

and multi-media presentations) because they are

made from binary code.

But for instance you could scan a painting that was

out of copyright, but if you did it from a modern day

book you would be infringing copyright as the

design of the book would be protected.

But your digital work would be protected in the

same as if you had painted it in oils, provided that it

is original and is in material form – ideas cannot be

copyrighted but if you put them into a physical form

this can be protected.

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Plagiarism

What is it?

How does it effect me?

What am I allowed to do?

What am I not allowed to do?

How will you know if I am being dishonest?

Can I get others to help me?

What are the penalties for plagiarising in my project work?

Plagiarism



What is it?








"To steal or pass off (the ideas or words of

another) as one's own" (Webster's dictionary)

The range of plagiarism ranges from the wholesale

copying of an essay to cutting and pasting of

sections and their rearrangement interspersed with

original comment.

Ironically it actually takes longer to do this than to

create totally original work!

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It simply means that you can’t use other people’s

work and pass it off as your own on any college

project work.

This is the same as if you were doing work for an

external client as the Law makes only a few

differences for you as a student.

Take a look at the other pages to get a fuller view

but always seek the advice of your tutor if in any

doubt.

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Create and present your own work for

assessment!

Do not fall into the trap of thinking that if you

rewrite something it is not cheating, even if you

"put it into your own words“.

If you do not fully acknowledge the author, artist,

sculptor, photographer or fellow student it is

plagiarism!

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Copying and pasting text, images or code from any on-line media, including web sites and "Free" reference material without proper acknowledgement is not allowed

Taking text, images or code from any printed material, be they books, magazines or instruction manuals without proper acknowledgement is not allowed

Just changing the text, image or layout without proper acknowledgement is not allowed. You might feel that by changing a few words or altering someone else's design by changing the colours etc is OK, it is not

If you intend to use any media (pictures, paintings, graphics, video, sounds, music or layouts) in a presentation or project then you must acknowledge them

There are many sources who will provide material for your project work for a fee, this is not allowed

You must not use work that you previously prepared for another module, course or project. You should talk to your tutor to get his or her opinion. By all means use it as a starting point and include it as part of your research material, but remember to acknowledge it in your bibliography.

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What is it?








We use a variety of techniques both traditional and

software based.

We have some brilliant software called Turn It In

which we put your project into, it then searches the

whole internet and shows us where there are any

matches with the work you have submitted.

The college wants you to enjoy your time here, to

get the most out of the course and profit from the

learning experience. For these reasons we ensure

that all of your work is assessed using the same

strict guidelines of academic honesty.

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What is it?








If you are working as part of a team on a project you

may include other student's work as part of the

material you present for assessment providing you

have their agreement, it is an integrated part of the

project and is acknowledged.

Work done by parents, friends etc must be declared,

if you do not, this is plagiarism.

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What is it?








The awarding bodies will be notified in all relevant cases The level of sanction taken against the student will depend on their level: First certificate and National DiplomaFirst "offence" formal warning, Second "offence" rejection of work, subsequent "offence" disqualification from programme "A" levelsFirst "offence" formal warning, Second "offence" reporting nature of offence to examinations body Degree levelFirst "offence" formal warning and rejection of work, Second "offence" disqualification from programme

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CopyrightRemember…..

The authors of this presentation have attempted to ensure the accuracy

of its contents, but note that it does not constitute legal advice and no

responsibility can be accepted for any action taken by its readers.

Copyright Law is complex and occasionally ambiguous. This document is

intended as a quick guide and you are advised to seek legal advice for

specific circumstances.

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